Chapter Summaries

Yang Dong tried to escape Emperor Wushi, who pursued him while talking incessantly. Ye Fan then appeared and joined Wushi in blocking Yang Dong's path.

• Yang Dong fought off Emperor Wushi's Wushi Bell and fled, but Wushi used the Dao of time to catch up with him.
• Yang Dong cut through Wushi's obstructing laws with the Demon Blade Thousand Blades, yet Wushi's time Dao Fruit and Wushi Bell protected him as he continued the pursuit.
• Emperor Wushi told Yang Dong that they shared a connection through Purple Mountain and repeatedly urged him to stop and talk.
• Yang Dong complained about Wushi's nonstop chatter and tried to escape, but Wushi followed and began explaining his family and constitution.
• Ye Fan appeared ahead of Yang Dong and used the Myriad Mother Qi Cauldron alongside Wushi's bell to seal the area.
• Ye Fan explained that Wushi talked excessively because he had once gone hundreds of thousands of years without speaking.

Yang Dong was cornered by Wu Shi and Ye Fan, then joined by the Ruthless Great Emperor after her essence blood returned. Unable to escape or refuse, he agreed to accompany them to the end of the Underworld Road, while Ye Fan and Wu Shi kept their weapons ready.

• Yang Dong asked Wu Shi and Ye Fan to spare him, but they kept him trapped with the Wushi Bell and Myriad Mother Qi Cauldron.
• The Ruthless Great Emperor arrived as her essence blood returned, allowing her Dao Fruit to emerge and grow stronger.
• Yang Dong tried to talk his way out of trouble, but the Ruthless Great Emperor asked him to stop running and go with them to the end of the Underworld Road.
• Yang Dong reluctantly agreed, and Ye Fan and Wu Shi kept their weapons raised because they did not trust him.

Yang Dong warned the Empress, Ye Fan, and Emperor Wushi that the Ancient Path of the Underworld might lead to a being powerful enough to rival the one who severed the myriad worlds. The Empress asked whether the danger was real, and Yang Dong confirmed it as they approached the path’s end.

• The Empress, Ye Fan, Emperor Wushi, and Yang Dong walked along the Ancient Path of the Underworld while the Empress grew stronger from the fused blood essence.
• Yang Dong complained that Ye Fan and Emperor Wushi distrusted him, but they remembered his repeated attempts to slip away.
• The Empress said they were heading for the end of the Underworld Road, and Yang Dong warned that the gateway could hold dangers beyond their ability to face.
• The Empress questioned Yang Dong about the stronger beings he knew existed, and he explained that the road might have been built by someone on the level of the one who severed it.
• Yang Dong speculated that the road’s builder might still exist beyond its end and could be responsible for its revival, while warning that a Quasi-Immortal Emperor was there.
• The Empress stopped and asked Yang Dong whether the danger was real, and he said it was.

Yang Dong explained the realms above the Great Emperor and warned Ye Fan, Emperor Wushi, and the Empress that the end of the Underworld Road could hold Quasi-Immortal Emperor-level beings. The Empress decided they would not go there yet, but insisted that Yang Dong return with them to their world.

• Emperor Wushi asked what realm the figure who was Solely Decisive Through Eternity had reached, and Yang Dong said he had become an Immortal Emperor and might still be alive.
• Yang Dong described the Immortal King, Quasi-Immortal Emperor, and Immortal Emperor realms, and revealed that two people from their world had attained the Immortal Emperor Realm.
• Yang Dong warned that an ominous substance had contaminated one Immortal Emperor and could threaten the Immortal Realm.
• Yang Dong said the Underworld Road likely had a Quasi-Immortal Emperor directing it, so Ye Fan, Emperor Wushi, and the Empress could not safely reach its end.
• The Empress agreed to postpone the journey but told Yang Dong he would return with them, and Yang Dong reluctantly accepted.

Yang Dong, Ye Fan, the Empress, and Emperor Wushi searched the ancient road for a way back to their universe, learning that the Bronze Ancient Coffin might have countless projections. After more than a hundred years without finding a familiar route, Emperor Wushi used his origin and the Dao of Time and Space to identify a direction, though the effort injured him.

• Ye Fan sensed a general direction with the Myriad Mother Qi Cauldron, and the four set off to find a familiar road.
• Yang Dong asked about the Bronze Ancient Coffin, and the group realized they had all lost sight of it.
• An ancient being warned them that returning was nearly impossible and said the Bronze Ancient Coffin might have countless projections.
• The four traveled for over a hundred years, and the Empress confirmed they were moving away from the end of the Underworld Road.
• Emperor Wushi used the Wushi Bell and an old object from the Zhetian Universe to search for the way back, but a terrifying Dao Rhyme forced him to stop after the object pointed in one direction.

Emperor Wushi sensed that a sleeping Quasi-Immortal Emperor’s Dao Rhyme was watching them as Yang Dong, Ye Fan, and their companions searched the ancient road for a way home. They returned to Blue Star and learned the War Halberd had vanished, leaving open the possibility that someone had entered their universe.

• Emperor Wushi said he could no longer use the Dao of Time and Space because Dao Rhyme had taken notice of him.
• More than ten years later, Yang Dong, Emperor Wushi, Ye Fan, and their companion found the Great Abyss they had passed before and continued along the ancient road.
• At a crossroads, Yang Dong found the War Halberd missing, and Ye Fan worried that whoever had taken it might have entered their universe.
• Yang Dong pointed out the entrance to their universe, and the four broke through the spatial barrier and emerged near Blue Star.
• Ye Fan recognized Blue Star as the place where his rise had begun, and the group headed toward the Immortal Realm while concealing themselves.

Ye Fan and Emperor Wushi returned to the Immortal Realm, where they learned that Duan De had predicted Ye Fan would personally bury him and others. Yang Dong took Black Empress Clan away to play with it, leaving the dog unable to escape and pleading for help.

• Ye Fan, Emperor Wushi, and Yang Dong arrived in the Immortal Realm and reunited with their allies, including Black Empress Clan and Ye Fan's disciples.
• Battle Saint Ape and Black Empress Clan told Ye Fan that Duan De had vanished after claiming Ye Fan would bury him and others; Ye Fan ordered them to find Duan De.
• Black Empress Clan questioned Yang Dong and tried to intimidate him, but Yang Dong froze it and took it away.
• Yang Dong brought Black Empress Clan to a mountain, where the dog's bite failed, its escape formations did not work, and it warned Yang Dong that Emperor Wushi and Ye Fan would retaliate.

Yang Dong left Black Empress Clan suspended over a boiling pot and went to meet Ye Fan, who asked him where the Land of the Upper Heavens was. Yang Dong said he did not know, accepted scriptures on light and darkness, and departed while Ye Fan remained troubled by Duan De’s ominous vision.

• Yang Dong threatened to cook Black Empress Clan, then left it hanging over the pot when Ye Fan summoned him.
• Yang Dong arrived silently at the Heavenly Court and learned that the Empress and Emperor Wushi had gone to find Duan De.
• Ye Fan asked Yang Dong where the Land of the Upper Heavens was, but Yang Dong said he did not know and warned that its danger would be even greater than he had described.
• Ye Fan gave Yang Dong scriptures about the Great Daos of light and darkness, which Yang Dong accepted before leaving.
• Ye Fan worried about Duan De’s vision of him burying his friends and family.

Duan De prepared another fake grave after glimpsing a future calamity, then returned to the Heavenly Court and warned Ye Fan that even Emperor Wushi might die. Ye Fan rejected Duan De’s call to find a retreat and insisted they needed to strike first.

• Duan De selected a forbidden region for his seventh fake grave, fearing that someone might rob his real one after his death.
• A Heavenly Court messenger told Duan De that Ye Fan and the others had returned with an unidentified person, so Duan De headed back to the Heavenly Court.
• Duan De argued with Black Empress Clan, accidentally admitted he had found several burial sites, and watched the dog teleport away.
• Duan De told Ye Fan that his vision showed a calamity worse than the Chaotic Ancient Era and Emperor Corpse Fuzhong.
• Duan De said he could not remember the enemy’s appearance and urged Ye Fan to find a way out, but Ye Fan declared they should take the initiative and strike.

Ye Fan told Duan De that the reviving Myriad Worlds ancient road and the unknown place beyond the heavens threatened their world. They suspected Zhang Bairen might know where the place beyond the heavens was, so Duan De set out to search while Ye Fan ordered people to find Zhang Bairen.

• Ye Fan explained that the reviving ancient road connected the Myriad Worlds and carried terrifying beings, and Duan De recognized it as one source of the future crisis he had foreseen.
• Ye Fan revealed that the place beyond the heavens, somewhere in the Immortal Realm, contained a substance that could cause mutation and posed another threat to their world.
• Ye Fan remembered that Zhang Bairen might know about the place beyond the heavens, and Duan De gave Ye Fan a linked jade shard before leaving to search for it.
• Black Empress Clan asked where Duan De was going, then fled when Ye Fan suggested sending it to Futuo Mountain.
• Ye Fan ordered his people to find Zhang Bairen and tell him that Ye Fan wanted to speak with him, prompting a search across the Immortal Realm and Ancient Desolate World.

As the Myriad Worlds Evolution Path opened above the Zhetian Universe, the Empress and the Heavenly Court faced invaders who demanded the world for sacrifice. The Empress fought their leader while Ye Fan, Emperor Wushi, and Duan De joined the battle against the invading army and its Immortal King-level fighters.

• Yang Dong comprehended the Path of Light and gained its Seed after three thousand years of cultivation.
• A vast hole opened in the sky, and Ye Fan warned the Heavenly Court that it was a main battlefield of the Myriad Worlds Evolution Path.
• Two hundred years later, war chariots emerged from the hole; Emperor Wushi's bell failed to stop them, and the Empress deflected an arrow from an enemy as powerful as he was.
• An old man and four powerful companions came through the hole, and the old man demanded that the Empress surrender the world and leave.
• The Empress attacked the old man, prompting his forces to charge into the world; Ye Fan led the Heavenly Court to meet them.
• Ye Fan fought an enemy head-on, Emperor Wushi engaged an Immortal King-level opponent, and Duan De confronted another.

Yang Dong left his seclusion and joined the battle, rescuing Duan De from two Immortal Kings and taking one opponent on himself. After a fierce exchange, Yang Dong crippled the Immortal King, who fled with his lower body severed, and moved to finish him off.

• Su Mo and another Immortal King overwhelmed Duan De until Yang Dong appeared and drove them back with a sword strike.
• Yang Dong asked how long Duan De could hold one enemy, then engaged the other Immortal King while Duan De took on his opponent.
• The Empress, Ye Fan, and Emperor Wushi continued fighting their own Immortal King opponents, while Duan De struggled to withstand his enemy’s attacks.
• Yang Dong and the Immortal King traded powerful strikes until Yang Dong severed the enemy’s lower body.
• Yang Dong formed a giant finger from his world laws and brought it down on the fleeing Immortal King.

Yang Dong helped the Empress, Emperor Wushi, and the others repel the heavenly pit’s forces, but the gray-robed old man rescued Qingyun and ordered a retreat. After the battle, Ye Fan and his companions faced their injuries and feared what the future might bring.

• Yang Dong nearly killed Qingyun Immortal King with an enormous finger, but the gray-robed old man intervened and saved him.
• The Empress and Emperor Wushi continued fighting their opponents as the gray-robed old man ordered the heavenly pit’s forces to retreat.
• Black Empress Clan, Pang Bo, and Xiao Song watched the enemy withdraw after a fierce battle that left their side injured and exhausted.
• Duan De’s suppressed injuries erupted, and Ye Fan checked on him while he recovered.
• Duan De asked about Yang Dong’s origins, but Ye Fan postponed the discussion and turned to the battlefield’s aftermath.
• Ye Fan looked at his brothers, disciples, and son and vowed to find a path for them, whatever the future held.

Yang Dong and the others prepared to hold off the forces beyond the heavenly pit while improving their strength. After Yang Dong spent ten years studying two of the Eight Secret Arts, the Empress and a hidden ally launched a planned attack on the gray-robed old man.

• Duan De warned Yang Dong, Ye Fan, the Empress, and Emperor Wushi that the enemy might still have Immortal King-level experts and urged them to find a way out.
• Yang Dong, Ye Fan, and Emperor Wushi said they needed time to advance their cultivation, and the Empress offered to block the heavenly pit.
• Ye Fan traded Yang Dong the Eight Secret Arts for his help, and Yang Dong requested ten years to study the Movement Secret Art and Healing Secret Art.
• Ten years later, the Empress attacked the great world beyond the heavenly pit, drawing out the gray-robed old man.
• As the old man relaxed, an ally struck him with Heavenly Dao Slash, and the Empress unleashed her Divine Art to attack alongside the sword strike.

Yang Dong and the Empress wounded the gray-robed old man, then entered the heavenly pit and discovered that great worlds were colliding to form a new universe. They guarded the surrounding space as battles between civilizations continued, while preparing for stronger enemies and awaiting reinforcements.

• Yang Dong and the Empress broke through the gray-robed old man's defenses and drove him back into the heavenly pit, where he hid again.
• Yang Dong and the Empress entered the pit and realized that multiple great worlds were colliding, potentially creating a new universe and sparking a bloody battle for dominion.
• Yang Dong blocked a powerful arrow from an unseen attacker and answered with a sword strike that silenced the area.
• The Empress found the gray-robed old man but could not locate the great world he came from, while Yang Dong judged that their enemies' entrance was far away.
• The Empress stood guard as worlds collided nearby, and Yang Dong continued comprehending the Path of Darkness while deterring threats.

After eighty years of expansion and war, Yang Dong, Ye Fan, the Empress, and Emperor Wushi sought a way to stop the destruction spreading through the universe. They decided to travel upstream through time with Duan De’s help, leaving Yang Dong and Duan De behind to protect them as they entered the River of Time.

• Ye Fan arrived in Yang Dong and the Empress’s region, and Yang Dong explained that the universe’s repeated expansions were destroying countless civilizations.
• Emperor Wushi emerged from seclusion, bringing their side to four peak Immortal Kings, and proposed studying how the Desolate Heaven Emperor had severed the ages.
• Yang Dong warned that tracing the River of Time could trap them or provoke attacks, then suggested looking into the past rather than the future.
• Emperor Wushi explained that the Wushi Bell could stabilize time, and the group agreed to trace history to find a way to sever the connections between worlds.
• Yang Dong called for Duan De, who agreed to use his essence blood as a guide for the journey.
• Yang Dong stayed behind with Duan De to guard the group as Ye Fan, the Empress, and Emperor Wushi entered the River of Time.

Ye Fan and his companions followed a disturbance in the River of Time into the Chaotic Ancient Era, where Ye Fan arrived on his cauldron during An Lan’s assault on the Border Wasteland. An Lan warned Ye Fan to leave, but Ye Fan remained, and the chapter ended with the two facing one another across the ages.

• Ye Fan and the other two traveled upstream through the River of Time to witness An Lan destroy a formation and attack the ancient city held in his hand.
• The River of Time pulled the three into the Chaotic Ancient Era as An Lan declared himself invincible while carrying the Primal Imperial City.
• Ye Fan’s cauldron emerged from the river, crossed into the Border Wasteland, and forced the Golden-backed Python Bull to its knees.
• Ye Fan appeared atop the cauldron, and his gaze obliterated An Lan’s mount before An Lan’s followers and the defenders at Imperial Pass.
• An Lan told Ye Fan that he did not belong in that era and urged him to leave, but Ye Fan continued descending toward the battlefield.

Ye Fan confronted An Lan while traveling through the River of Time, but realized he had arrived before the battle he wanted to witness. His blood awakened Shi Hao’s hidden power, and as Shi Hao fought An Lan, Ye Fan was forced to leave before the collapsing time and space could trap him.

• Ye Fan approached An Lan and mocked the Foreign Realm’s forces, prompting An Lan to draw his golden spear and clash with Ye Fan.
• Emperor Wushi warned Ye Fan that their confrontation threatened to alter history as the River of Time continued pulling them back.
• A drop of Ye Fan’s blood emerged within Shi Hao and transformed the three figures above Shi Hao’s Flower of Great Dao into one.
• Shi Hao unleashed his awakened power and fought An Lan, while Ye Fan recognized him as the Desolate Heaven Emperor but judged him too weak for the battle he had sought.
• Emperor Wushi urged Ye Fan to return, and Ye Fan departed along the River of Time as the people’s memories of him faded.

Ye Fan, the Empress, and Emperor Wushi traveled upstream through the River of Time but could not reach the era they sought, and the river briefly seized Emperor Wushi’s mind. They returned safely to Yang Dong and Duan De, learning that only three months had passed and reporting that they had seen an earlier battle involving An Lan.

• Ye Fan told the Empress and Emperor Wushi that he had met the Desolate Heaven Emperor in an earlier era than the one they wanted to witness.
• The three traveled farther upstream but stopped when the River of Time warned them of danger and they found no trace of the history they sought.
• Emperor Wushi’s mind was seized by the River of Time as he tried to look downstream, but Ye Fan and the Empress stopped him and helped him recover.
• Ye Fan, the Empress, and Emperor Wushi returned through the node and learned from Duan De that three months had passed.
• Ye Fan told Duan De and Yang Dong that they had seen an earlier great battle whose strongest fighters were only Immortal Kings, including An Lan.

Yang Dong withdrew to study the Darkness Law while Ye Fan and the others considered their prospects against the looming crisis. The Ancient Underworld crossed into the newly formed universe, and the Empress attacked its gateway as eighteen dried Immortal King corpses sprang into action.

• Yang Dong left to enter seclusion and try to comprehend the Darkness Law, while Ye Fan, the Empress, and Emperor Wushi discussed their chances of reaching the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm.
• Duan De questioned whether the Land of the Upper Heavens was real, and Ye Fan insisted it had profoundly affected the Chaotic Ancient Era.
• A burning Yellow Talisman Paper revealed an altar whose call awakened the Ancient Path of the Underworld and drew its gateway, followed by ancient dried Immortal King corpses, into the merged universe.
• Ye Fan told the Empress that the Ancient Underworld had appeared in the new universe, guarded by eighteen dried Immortal King corpses.
• The Empress approached the Ancient Underworld and struck it with her palm, prompting all eighteen corpses to attack her.